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 Department of Nuclear Medicine

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Adapted for Windows by J. Varga, University of Debrecen, Hungary
03/14/2002

Table of Contents

Overview

The MINC (=Medical Image NetCDF) file format is the application of the NetCDF (Unidata Network Common Data Form) specification for various types of medical images.

The present package is the implementation for Microsoft Windows of the original packages developed for UNIX operating systems.

Releases

There are two releases of the package:

  • MINCWin_bin: the binary version, containing dynamic link libraries (DLL-s), header (.h) and library (.lib) files
  • MINCWin_src: the source code.

Versions of Components

Three different packages have been implemented:

NetCDF version 3.5.0 (see http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/packages/netcdf/)

Copyright 1993-1996 University Corporation for Atmospheric Research/Unidata

MINC version 1.0 (see http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/software/minc/minc.html)

Copyright 1993 Peter Neelin, McConnell Brain Imaging Centre,
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University.

Volume_IO (see http://www.bic.mni.mcgill.ca/~david/volume_io/volume_io.html)

Distributed as part of MINC version 1.0

Copyright 1993,1994,1995 David MacDonald,
McConnell Brain Imaging Centre,
Montreal Neurological Institute, McGill University.

Requirements

The binary package has been tested under Microsoft Windows 95, 98, ME, NT 4.0 and 2000 Professional operating systems.

Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 was used to compile the DLL-s, and is supported for developing MINC applications.

Usage

To run executables that depend on the DLL-s:

  • Copy the .DLL files from "\DevStudio\VC98\bin\" to a folder on your OS path.

To write applications that use the libraries:

  • Install Microsoft Visual Studio, including Visual C++ 6.0
  • Copy the contents of the folders in
    \DevStudio\VC98\
    into the respective folders of your Visual C installation
  • Define WIN32
  • Define in your project one of:
DLL_NETCDF  if your program calls only NetCDF routines
DLL_MINC  if your program is a pure MINC application
DLL_VOLIO  if your program calls functions of the Volume_IO package as well
  • Select the "Multithreaded DLL" run-time library
  • Set "Structure member alignment" to "8 bytes"
  • As library modules specify the required ones from among:
    netcdf.lib, minc.lib, volume_io.lib

See as example: \DevStudio\MINCAppl\vol_sum\vol_sum.dsp

To recompile the libraries:

  • Install Microsoft Visual Studio, including Visual C++ 6.0
  • Define the following environment variables:
    DEVSHOME:    the path of MS Development Studio (without "\" at the end)
    VCHOME:        the path of MS VC98 (without "\" at the end)
  • Copy the binary files as above
  • Copy the contents of
    \DevStudio\MINCfile
    as well.
  • Open the workspace: \DevStudio\MINCfile\MINCfile.dsw
  • Select and build the projects in this workspace in the following order:
    netcdf_dll
    Proglib
    cc_minc_lib
    volume_io

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Extension

Please read the proposal for the extension of the MINC standard to be able to handle all basic data types of nuclear medicine.

Contact

With your comments and advices please contact József Varga.


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